Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Carrownalecka, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrownalecka
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carrownalecka Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carrownalecka Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.62755, -9.22619
- SMR number
- MA118-022006-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In NE corner of large graveyard. Ruins of heavily overgrown rectangular church (7.5m N-S; 31.3m E-W), built with roughly coursed limestone rubble on protruding plinth. Poorly preserved remains of N wall contains remains of at least two narrow lights in splayed embrasures; and lintelled niche near E end. S wall (H 3.4m) contains three narrow single-light windows; niche near E end; and blocked up arched feature at E end. Opening in W wall may have been doorway. Original E window altered for insertion of later window which has subsequently been blocked. Interior filled with gravestones.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 606.
Date of upload: 14 November 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian friarsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.